August is an exciting month in our year. It is my better halves birthday and it is also the time when we have summer holidays. Time is spent riding the train to London, visiting museums, petting animals and sometimes joyfully going for long walks in the countryside. This all spells home. Spending last three years […]
There is no doubt that 2021 a distant cousin to 2020, hasn’t quite turned out as any of us could have ever imagined. We have all had our set of highs and lows and the feeling of sleeping up in their own bed has been pretty surreal for most of us. Most of us have […]
Before I bake my delicious Espresso cake I wanted to write a quote which resonates with me at this juncture. She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she’d been young, she’d had an insatiable hunger for more of it, though she hadn’t understood why. […]
Eggless Mango Mousse Cake This Sunday is Mother’s day in United states and my home country India. Though UK has mother’s day in the month of March. Well, I don’t cease to be a mother any-day, whether March or May :). So, I baked an Eggless Mango Mousse Cake cake for myself this year since […]
For Christmas this year I created a Hygge Inspired Holiday table and a very delicious Christmas plum cake. The higgle desire has intensified over the years and this birthday my hubby and sister gave me The little book of hygge and Scandinavian interiors book which has completely enamoured my soul. Most of the stuff on the […]
Today’s recipe on the blog is the French Almond Cake. But before I start writing about the recipe I wanted to draw some analogy on Chiaroscuro photography. Light & Shadow Analogy This is influenced from the Netflix series DARK and the episode of LIGHT & SHADOW. They are like the ying and yang of life. […]
Simple Carrot Cake This good Friday while I am baking Carrot Cake and I am also praying for the small blessings that grace our life in this critical situation. Most importantly, when things are falling apart, it takes the destruction of old while the news ones are germinating. For instance, I showed my germinating seedlings […]
This cake was baked inspired from the idea of Willo-the-wisp and ghost light which is meant to misguide travellers from their path by resembling a flickering lantern. It is seen mostly over swamps bugs and marshy lands. In literature this is used metaphorically to resemble a feeling of hope or a goal which we want […]
This recipe of mine is filled with persuasion to every Odia to emancipate his/her own culture. I have travelled the world and speak 6 languages and in this journey have researched on several cuisines. I bring that diversity of styles and flavours to this traditional favourite of mine Chatua which is especially made on Odia […]
In a few hours, England along with the world would witness the most sought after royal wedding of this decade. I belong to the category of royal fans while my family remains erstwhile. As a girl I saw my parents follow closely Princess Diana’s actions. Her beauty resplendent with her actions had made her “the […]